Sunday, February 23, 2014

Turkish Awakening: a Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey, by Alev Scott, review - Telegraph

Turkish Awakening: a Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey, by Alev Scott, review
Turkey has followed a turbulent path in recent years. It is like an oddball relative, and understanding it a lifelong effort

By Elif Shafak

Each time I make a phone call from London to my husband in Istanbul we have a ritual. I ask him about himself and then I ask, as if it were another person we knew in common, “How is the country doing?”

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